On Thu, 21 Feb 2008 15:38:01 -0500
Chris Snook <csnook@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Can you change how your BIOS handles memory hole remapping? Mine has the option
> of using either discrete or continuous mapping, and they don't generate
> semantically equivalent mtrr configurations. Switching this option made a 4G
> problem go away for me.
I put an ATI video card into this computer to substitute for the on-board Intel
video and somehow the problem magically went away. This computer runs at full
speed now without any "mem=" parameter, and as a bonus I get a lot more
available memory:
[frankcox@mutt temp]$ free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 3994784 3805124 189660 0 49524 3118824
-/+ buffers/cache: 636776 3358008
Swap: 2031608 60 2031548
I recovered 637mb of ram over what I had available when using the on-board
Intel video.
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